Attachment for curtain rods



June 26, '1 945.

R. BAUMANN ATTACHMENT FOR CURTAIN RODS Filed March 21, 1944 3mm R055 Ba umazzzz' 5% ,XM K

'vide an improved threader for resume a straight line Patented June 26, 1945 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE ATTACHMENT FOR CURTAIN RODS Ross Baumann, Yuma, Ariz. Application March 21, 1944, Serial No. 527,445 4 Claims. (01. 223-105) The object of the present invention is to procurtain rods by means of which tubular curtain rods may .be easily and quickly passed through the hems of curtains and drapes of various kinds. Since ourtains are frequently made of net or other loosely woven fabric, it has heretofore been troublesome to insert the curtain rods in their hems because of the catching of the ends of the rods in the fabric. This has been damaging to the curtains as well as trying to the patience of the person who is doing the work. As this description proceeds it-will be seen that I have provided a very simple and inexpensive article which will avoid the foregoing objections.

In the accompanying drawing, in which like reference characters designate corresponding parts in both of the figures of the drawing Fig. 1 is a side elevation of a curtain threader showing the same in distended position; and

Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the threader showing it compressed and inserted in the end of a curtain rod.

The threader proper is made of a single piece of wire bent to form a loop 5 constituting a head. Legs 6 and 1 project from the loop and terminate in outturned ends 8 and 9. The resilience of the wire of which the aforesaid structure is formed is such as to tend to cause the legs 6 and I to spread apart. However, this tendency of the legs to spread apart is accentuated by a coil spring to which embraces the head 5. This spring Ill serves a double function in that its tendency to position causes it to act upon the threader in such manner as to tend to cause the legs 6 and l to move away from each other. The wire from which the spring I is formedis smooth and polished and it enlarges the whole head of the structure so that the threader rides easily into the hem of a curtain without any possibility of damage to the curtain. When the threader is to be inserted in the curtain rod its legs 6 and 1 are pressed together. The threader is then inserted in the end of the curtain rod I I (Fig. 2) and is pushed inwardly until the shoulders head 5 and legs 6 and 1, abut against the end of the curtain rod. When the legs are released their outwardly turned ends 8 and 9 engage the inner wall of the curtain rod frictionally and with such force that there will be no danger of accidental dislodgement of the threader from its plac in the curtain rod. This threader is adapted to l2,-at the juncture of the,

serve equally well with tubular curtain rods in many diflerent shapes in cross section, such, for example, as round, oval or rectangular tubes.

The invention is'not limited to the precise construction set forth but includes within its purview whatever changes fairly come within either prising a single piece the terms or the spirit of the appended claims. Having described my invention, what I claim 1s:

1. A threader of the character described comprising a single piece of metal bent to form a loop-like head and a pair of elongated legs and a spring wire coil embracing the loop-like head, the whole constituting a structure of such resiliency as to tend to cause the legs to move apart, the lower ends of the legs terminating in members lying outwardly of said legs to frictionally engage the inner walls of a tubular member under the resilient action of said legs.

2. A structure as recited in claim 1., wherein the juncture of the loop-like head with the divergent legs is at such an angle as to constitute shoulders which limit the extent of the insertion of the threader into a tubular curtain rod.

3. A threader of the character described comprising a single piece of metal. bent to form a loop-like head and a pair of elongated legs and a spring wire coil embracing the loop-like head throughout nearly its entire length, the whole constituting a structure 01' such resiliency as to tend to cause the legs to move apart, the lower ends of the legs being bent outwardly and upwardly to provide out-turned ends which lie outwardly of the legs proper and which frictionally engage the inner walls of a tubular curtain rod when inserted therein.

4. A threader of the character described comof wire bent to form a loop-like head and a pair of elongated legs extending from the extremities of said loop, said loop and legs all lying in substantially the same general plane and the wire being of such resiliency as to tend to cause said legs to move apart, and a. coiled spring closely embracing said loop throughout the major portion of the length of the same and tending by its spring action to move said legs apart, said loop and spring complementally presenting a part adapted for ready entry into the hem of a curtain, the presence of said spring materially thickening said entering part.

ROSS BAUMANN. 

